Google Meet vs. Slack

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Meet
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Google Meet, formerly Hangouts Meet, replaces the former Google Hangouts as the company's G Suite integrated web conferencing tool, allowing users to join meetings directly from a Calendar event or email invite from a computer, phone, or conference room. G Suite's Enterprise edition also creates a dial-in phone number for each meeting, as an additional convenience.
$6
per month
Slack
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Slack is a group messaging or team collaboration app that aims to simplify communication for businesses. Features include open discussions, private groups, and direct messaging, as well as deep contextual search and message archiving, and file sharing. Slack integrates with a number of other tools, such as MailChimp, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Slack was acquired by Salesforce in December 2020. The product is free to use, and also has paid plans with more features and greater controls. The…
$8.75
per month per user
Pricing
Google MeetSlack
Editions & Modules
Google Workspace - Business Starter
$6
per month
Google Workspace - Business Standard
$12
per month
Google Workspace - Business Plus
$18
per month
Free
$0
Pro
$7.25*
per month per user
Business+
$12.50*
per month per user
Enterprise
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google MeetSlack
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details*Per active user, per month, when paying once a year. Pro is $8.75 USD per active user when paying month to month. Business+ is $15.00 USD per active user when paying month to month.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Google MeetSlack
Considered Both Products
Google Meet
Chose Google Meet
Slack is not capable of handling large attendees so we are using Google Meet when number of attendees are higher.
Chose Google Meet
They all have their strong suits and seem simple to use. Google seems to be the most widely used out of our contacts and keeps us all connected easily. Our company has also deemed Google to be the most secure out of the choices so we use it as our primary way to connect.
Chose Google Meet
I think it is the best option, personally. Zoom is a little more well known, I think but Google Hangouts Meet is so much more user friendly. As a company, we used to use Join.me, and I feel like it was glitchy and complicated to get clients on the platform. Google Hangouts Meet …
Chose Google Meet
All key features are working similar accept an option to record sessions. This is one of our top priority. At the moment we are using Cisco Webex besides Google hangout meets that we us for our online lectures. We might be open to use Google Meet if this option would be …
Chose Google Meet
It is easier to schedule meetings with Google Hangouts Meet and can be simpler than Zoom. Zoom does have better audio and video along with more customizable features available to the user.
Chose Google Meet
Google Hangouts Meet is free and security is not a concern. Hangouts also follows a brand name that establishes strong reliability. The integration with Gsuite and Gmail is the icing on the cake.
Chose Google Meet
I have also used Zoom and am pretty familiar with Zoom. Honestly, I have no preference between the two and can't see any major differences between them! They both have very similar functionalities and are great platforms to connect with others. If you use Gmail for work though, …
Slack
Chose Slack
Slack is much better to use than the alternatives. It provides rich communication methods with better integrations, threads and attachments. It's also seamless when adding people or modifying a group, which is so common in day to day communications.
However I would say the …
Chose Slack
In the team, we don't have thread options. Slack does offer thread options, and it is handy to use threads. Discord sometimes gets complicated for a non-techy, whereas Slack is a very easy-to-use platform. I still feel Google Meet and video calls are better and easier to use …
Chose Slack
No, I use many. I use Google Meet, I use teams, I use many others. Again, it's the same, not many things, but if I'm repeating myself, it's all about sharing the information, how quickly it's effective, the quality is good, the huddle is fine, you can share all the, so all the …
Chose Slack
Slack is the best, it’s hands down the best. Wouldn’t use anything else. Discord only makes sense if your people are on it already. Ours are on Slack.
Chose Slack
Slack holds up fairly well with the others. They all have the same basic features. Where they do differ is the execution. You can tell that for Teams and Discord, they had Slack in mind when they were designing their system. These two would be the closest to Slack, even in …
Chose Slack
Slack has a big fan community by developers - its a very geeky tool. I don't think it has any big benefits
Chose Slack
Slack has had strong market penetration so I've found that staff are generally already familiar with it which is helpful in terms of quick, easy adoption. It was generally less expensive, more powerful, smoother to integrate and easier to adopt than competing options.
Chose Slack
Slack's interface is very friendly in comparison to something like Discord, which feels very 'tech'. There's a place for both, of course. But in terms of a friendly, open feel, Slack does not feel as daunting as some of the competitors. For task management, while something like …
Chose Slack
Slack is a more complete implementation of the above listed products. It is like an everything in one app, which has everything ranging from audio calls/video calls to messaging to automated workflows and documentation sharing functionality, as well as project management …
Chose Slack
We did not found the same level of features on all these products. Where Slack is better than other ones, is that you are interacting with other really fast, you can jump in open channels, private channels, be updated about topics and also manage different workspaces. The …
Chose Slack
Slack has a far superior UI that makes information easier to find and use. It has better organizational features across the top to organize content. Slack is constantly evolving with new features, while Teams is slower to roll out anything new.
Chose Slack
My company selected Slack and my previous company too. As Enterprise architect this tool is perfect to me. It goes straight to the point, it's fast, it's light and clear on the purpose. You can prepare your message without anoying others. You can format your text with enough …
Chose Slack
Slack has so many more features. They do a great job at delivering what they set out to do.
Chose Slack
Because this this tool can be used for several things such as videocalls, shortcut to create tickets in jira and so on.
Chose Slack
Because in Slack, we can use all this in a single interface, we don't have to open multiple workspaces, and we can do all the tasks in a single interface. Also, we don't need to send the invites. We can directly do voice and video calls. So Slack is cheaper than other platforms …
Chose Slack
Having used these 3 software, I believe Slack covers a much wider use case scenario, the user onboarding experience is seamless, the platform is very user friendly and intuitive, very well organized as compared to the other competing software that's out there in the market. …
Chose Slack
Slack is an always-on solution with better ways to meet and communicate on the fly than these other methods. It's a better productivity tool overall than either Meet or Zoom, and I can't see working without it at this point.
Chose Slack
Slack is 1000 times better that Microsoft Teams in my opinion. I find teams very outdated and not visually appealing. It almost looks likes its from the early 2000s. Slack is much more modern and sleek. Better emojis and reactions with Slack. Also even easier to navigate than Mi…
Chose Slack
Slack has great developer community support, since it's democratised its API support & documentation are widely available, so as a developer, I can develop the features on inbuilt SDKs & publish my features which is great plus to Slack. It also provides bot communication, so it …
Chose Slack
Slack is the primary instant communication platform I have used, so I don't have much exact comparison. I can say that Slack is extremely user-friendly! Our team consists of people of all ages and different levels of computer skills, and everyone is able to use Slack. Slack …
Chose Slack
User friendly
Easy integration
Large number of users
Chose Slack
Slack allows to have a history record and talk about multiple subjects at a time with several colleagues.
Chose Slack
Slack contains features of thread, hashtag, multiple messages we can pin , send reactions to comments and many more which makes it different from others
Chose Slack
Slack is the go to app for communication, period.
Features
Google MeetSlack
Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Product A and Product B
Google Meet
8.9
57 Ratings
12% above category average
Slack
-
Ratings
High quality audio8.957 Ratings00 Ratings
High quality video8.857 Ratings00 Ratings
Low bandwidth requirements8.943 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile support8.951 Ratings00 Ratings
Screen Sharing
Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Product A and Product B
Google Meet
8.4
57 Ratings
6% above category average
Slack
-
Ratings
Desktop sharing8.557 Ratings00 Ratings
Whiteboards8.338 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Meetings / Events
Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Product A and Product B
Google Meet
8.0
55 Ratings
2% below category average
Slack
-
Ratings
Calendar integration8.854 Ratings00 Ratings
Meeting initiation8.754 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with social media6.325 Ratings00 Ratings
Record meetings / events7.743 Ratings00 Ratings
Slideshows8.344 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Events Collaboration
Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Google Meet
8.2
54 Ratings
2% above category average
Slack
-
Ratings
Live chat8.652 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience polling8.034 Ratings00 Ratings
Q&A8.137 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Events Security
Comparison of Online Events Security features of Product A and Product B
Google Meet
8.7
47 Ratings
8% above category average
Slack
-
Ratings
User authentication8.644 Ratings00 Ratings
Participant roles & permissions9.242 Ratings00 Ratings
Confidential attendee list8.133 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Google Meet
-
Ratings
Slack
8.0
625 Ratings
4% above category average
Task Management00 Ratings7.8428 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings6.961 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings7.8361 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.1394 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings9.4598 Ratings
Search00 Ratings8.3605 Ratings
Visual planning tools00 Ratings7.4273 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
Google Meet
-
Ratings
Slack
8.8
633 Ratings
10% above category average
Chat00 Ratings9.6632 Ratings
Notifications00 Ratings8.9629 Ratings
Discussions00 Ratings9.3617 Ratings
Surveys00 Ratings8.2410 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings7.8409 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings8.9110 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings8.7182 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings8.9120 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Google Meet
-
Ratings
Slack
8.5
600 Ratings
6% above category average
Versioning00 Ratings8.2324 Ratings
Video files00 Ratings8.4538 Ratings
Audio files00 Ratings8.5525 Ratings
Document collaboration00 Ratings8.0426 Ratings
Access control00 Ratings8.3409 Ratings
Advanced security features00 Ratings8.3360 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings9.0211 Ratings
Device sync00 Ratings9.0452 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Google MeetSlack
Small Businesses
Intermedia AnyMeeting Pro
Intermedia AnyMeeting Pro
Score 7.3 out of 10
Stackby
Stackby
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
JioMeet
JioMeet
Score 9.8 out of 10
Troop Messenger
Troop Messenger
Score 9.8 out of 10
Enterprises
Webex Meetings
Webex Meetings
Score 8.6 out of 10
HCL Connections
HCL Connections
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Google MeetSlack
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(62 ratings)
9.2
(631 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(6 ratings)
10.0
(25 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(21 ratings)
9.0
(248 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
9.8
(18 ratings)
9.9
(68 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(5 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.6
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
9.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google MeetSlack
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
If you have a small team, use Google Meet. If you want to have a weekly check-up, use Google Meet. If you want to do a small hosting of conferences — kind of like a webinar, I would say to be very specific — Google Meet is really, really good. So that’s what my recommendations are.
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Salesforce
Slack is great for tracking commits to new coding projects. You can take parts of code that still need to be implemented later and easily search through the history of comments if there is something that goes wrong with a code commitment. It can be difficult for people that only like Teams to adjust to a new platform if you are using both to communicate.
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Pros
Google
  • I think it's fairly easy to operate. Once people get in, they know where the buttons are and stuff.
  • The chat's good.
  • It does good transcriptions.
  • I like the backgrounds that are available.
  • I like the just overall, I guess the layout is simple and most people know how to use it, which is good.
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Salesforce
  • Huddles Run smoothly without any interferences.
  • Smooth individual calls quick and easy without any interruptions.
  • seamless notifications across multiple devices
  • The ability to easily tag a team member to urgently attend to a specific escalation.
  • Slack being user friendly and able to integrate easily with other platforms and apps.
  • How to easily open up different channels for different escalations and needs.
  • a safe direct messaging option.
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Cons
Google
  • One of the challenges that I see is that whenever we have in a meeting, we won't be able to drop some of the documents that we have. That's one of the big challenges which I see in Google Meet. At that point of time, we either have to Slack or we have to share an email. We cannot do that, like sending that particular document in the Google meet chat.
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Salesforce
  • Would love a better integration with GitHub. For example, notifications when your PR is updated, when review is requested, @-mention in comments, etc.
  • Improved "Later" tab, for example the ability to create to-do lists or making the "Later" tab into a more powerful to-do list (annotate items with notes)
  • More powerful integrations, e.g. Google Calendar could render a calendar view within Slack, rather than sending the daily schedule
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Likelihood to Renew
Google
This app is still having a lot of redundant features as compared to other industry apps such as Zoom and Webex which offers much more on the functionality side along with the option to have greater user access control to the admin/host of the meetings. A sense of interaction is always found to be missing in Google meet which can be easily adopted in the Zoom
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Salesforce
To be more transparent, I give 10 because Slack serves our collaboration needs. It provide us a good platform for team communication relaying important update within the company, it has even mobile app where you can install in your phone to monitor any updates within that team that needs your immediate attention and intervention.
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Usability
Google
Google Meet is very easy and simple to use. I can schedule a meeting right on my calendar - it literally takes a few seconds. There is no additional app I have to open to schedule anything. Guests can click on the link easily to join any meetings. 10/10!
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Salesforce
My rating was 7. Its intuitive interface and user-friendly features like channels, threads, and integrations make it excellent for team communication and onboarding. However, its usability is held back by the resource-intensive desktop app and cluttered feeling in large workspaces. The mobile app's performance and unreliable notifications have also been noted as weaknesses.
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Reliability and Availability
Google
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
Yes, the app works 24/7. I don't even recall having any period that we could not use since the implementation. Even the maintenance periods are barely noticeable and our work is not impacted by it when it happens.
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Performance
Google
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
Slack is a soft app, we don't have many issues with it. I recall one or two people complaining about something during our usage period, but I didn't have a bad experience. When the app is slow, usually the problem is with my computer or my internet. The app works just fine.
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Support Rating
Google
Google does a great job of providing tech support for this product, as it does many others. Similarly, Google has FAQs that cover a large amount of issues faced by users. Problems have not persisted in our use of this product. Problems are resolved quickly and easily, with or without personal Google support.
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Salesforce
Whenever I've had to troubleshoot an issue with Slack (which, to be honest, has not happened very often), their online documentation has been easy to locate, easy to understand, and effective in resolving my issue. Slack's ever-growing popularity also means that there's a large community of practice out there that can be depended upon.
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Implementation Rating
Google
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
I was not part of the implementation team, but I recall being 100% happy and excited to learn and use a new tool. I'm still am to be honest.
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Alternatives Considered
Google
The main positive feature in Google Meet over Zoom to me is the fact that Google meet can be seamlessly deployed in the browser with its full functionality. Unlike Zoom for which you need to download an extra application to use. This consequently makes workflow smooth when transitioning between something like emails and taking part in a meeting.
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Salesforce
I like Slack better than ClickUp, because I would spend 30-60 minutes a day updating my ClickUp tasks. The way ClickUp was used was very micromanaging. I billed by the hour, so I was willing to put in the time to alert the boss what tasks I was working on.
One of my jobs used Hive - I mostly just ran it in the background in case anyone messaged me. I did not use it often.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Google
I wasn't involved in the unit pricing factor. So far I used Google meet in the office where I got access to all these Google applications including the Google Meet feature. So I wasn't involved much in this pricing factor of Google Meet and also regarding the contact terms of the product.
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
Google
This is very good in the professional services as I started using this first for the professional service only. While using this Google Meet itself gives a professional feel as the UI works in a professional way. The video background modification, multi-screen feature, and some other features help in professional service.
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Google
  • Negative: on each webinar someone from our team had to write manually the people that were participating and after that matching it with the registered people list. We wasted time. It could be easily resolved by adding the export list feature
  • Positive: Collaboration and internal meetings. Calendar integration helps us save time.
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Salesforce
  • Slack has been incredibly helpful in connecting various tech apps and ecosystems, creating a more streamlined and responsive process.
  • Slack has made it significantly easier to communicate with our team members across multiple time zones, creating a more engaging environment for our all-remote team.
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